Waiting times for care

Cancer surgery

The data presented here are for planned surgery, defined as surgery that can be scheduled by placing the patient on a waiting list. The surgeries included are for the treatment of malignant bowel, breast and lung cancer; these cancers have the ability to progress to more serious disease and spread to surrounding tissue or other organs, if left untreated.

Surgery for malignant bowel cancer: median waiting times

In 2012–13, there were 10–30 patients admitted for surgery for malignant bowel cancer at this hospital. Half of these patients received their surgery within 13 days (median waiting time), compared to this hospital's national peer performance of 16 days.

Surgery for malignant breast cancer: median waiting times

In 2012–13, there were 55 patients admitted for surgery for malignant breast cancer at this hospital. Half of these patients received their surgery within 10 days (median waiting time), compared to this hospital's national peer performance of 14 days.

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Waiting times for surgery for malignant cancer

The information shown is for planned surgery (sometimes referred to as elective surgery), defined as surgery that can be scheduled by placing the patient on a waiting list. Patients that were deemed to require emergency surgery at the time of planning are not placed on public hospital waiting lists and are not included.

Indicator

Waiting times are reported for patients:

Who had a principal diagnosis of malignant bowel, breast or lung cancer

Who received surgery for the treatment of malignant bowel, breast, or lung cancer

Whose surgeries were considered to be urgent (required within 30 days) or semi-urgent (required within 90 days) by the treating doctor.

Note: The waiting times for patients who were yet to receive their surgery are not included.

Number of surgeries for malignant cancer

Indicator

Number of surgeries for malignant cancer

About the indicator

The number of surgeries reported is the number of hospital admissions for planned urgent and semi-urgent surgery for malignant cancer.

A range of 10-30 surgeries is reported at hospitals that performed between 10 and 30 (inclusive) cancer surgeries in 2012–13.

Specification

To see more about this measure view the data specification for this indicator on Australia's metadata online registry, METeOR.

Median waiting time for surgery for malignant cancer

Indicator

Median waiting time for surgery for malignant cancer (days)

About the indicator

The median waiting times is the number of days within which half of people received their planned urgent or semi-urgent surgery for malignant cancer; the remaining half waited longer than the median waiting time for surgery.

Specification

To see more about this measure view the data specification for this indicator on Australia's metadata online registry, METeOR.